About Joanette
Joanette Pulskamp-Jackson is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience. She practices in Colorado and brings a steady, compassionate approach when people are facing stress and anxiety. Joanette focuses on helping individuals who need practical tools and steady support through hard moments.
She creates a calm, affirming space where people can talk through emotions and figure out next steps. Sessions emphasize clear goals and everyday strategies you can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Joanette draws from approaches that help clients notice patterns, change unhelpful thoughts, and build healthier behaviors. Her background includes work across trauma, grief, depression, addictions, and caregiver stress. She also supports concerns like relationship strain, intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, and coping with life changes.
Joanette has experience with attachment concerns, adoption and foster care, aging issues, autism spectrum needs, and family of origin matters. Her style is collaborative and strengths-focused. She uses methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, and emotion-focused work to help clients build skills.
Joanette also incorporates dialectical behavior ideas and motivational interviewing when helpful. Sessions are offered in English and Joanette works with clients in Colorado as well as international clients by online formats. For people juggling busy schedules, she offers video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling follow the Start Therapy button.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Joanette uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people manage anxiety and stress. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce symptoms like panic or persistent worry. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice difficult feelings, clarify what matters to them, and take committed actions toward those values.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions often combine techniques so people can practice skills and notice what helps most over time.
Online sessions include video calls, phone work, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video lets people maintain face-to-face connection, phone can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for short check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These formats help people fit therapy into busy lives and access care from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Colorado
- Languages
- English
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